Museums and the Web: An International
Conference
Los Angeles, CA, March 16 - 19, 1997

Archives & Museum Informatics, the organizers of the bi-annual International Conference on Hypermedia
and Interactivity in Museums (ICHIM '91-97) host an annual spring
conference held in North America on Museums and the Web.

In the three years since the appearance of the first museum web sites,
hundreds of museums have established a presence on the World Wide Web. We
believe museums have much to learn from each other and from developers who
have been using the Web for other applications. To provide an opportunity
for information exchange, Archives & Museum Informatics hosted an
international conference devoted exclusively to Museums and the
Web.

WebMasters, educators, exhibits staff, curators and managers from
museums, science centers, archives and special collections libraries attended. Because these institutions hold the vast majority
of the cultural resources of our society and have proven track records in
its interpretation, publishers, software developers and service
providers came to the meeting to explore the potential museums offer
as a source of content and the challenge they present to providers of
Web-based multimedia.

The conference web site will be maintained until the published Proceedings are available. We welcome your comments.